我记得你的回答是 “我他妈的才不在乎呢”
“I believe your answer was, "I do not give a flying fuck."”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“and sometimes I would be late or even miss work.”
我记得 你的 回答 是 “我他妈 的 才 不在乎 呢 ”
“I believe your answer was, "I do not give a flying fuck."”
在这句话里 我要从何推断你妻子已经死了?
“Where in that sentence was I meant to infer that your wife was… dead?”
“Don't pretend you had a noble reason; you made it clear back then that you simply didn't care.”
Directly reciting someone's harsh or uncouth prior words back to them is a deliberate move to eliminate plausible deniability and strip away face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
could not care less / do not give a damn
A strong colloquial phrase emphasizing absolute apathy or indifference, heightened by the preceding expletive.
as I recall / I remember
Often used rhetorically to introduce a devastating contradiction against an interlocutor's claim.
Adds lingering attitude and defiant emphasis to the quoted dismissive remark.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Didn't you say you didn't care?”
“none of those things matter to me.”
“I... I don't care anyway. I'm not the only one being punished.”
“can we truly not care about what others think.”
“I... I never cared about you?”
“Others don't care, but she does. Hence, she can't write.”